Try connecting a different signal source, such as a DVD player. Try connecting your signal source to different types of inputs, such as
1. the coaxial cable input
2. the yellow video RCA jack input
3. the red/green/blue composite video inputs, if you have them.
4. the S-video input, if it has one.
Of course, this depends on whether the DVD player (or cable tuner if you have one) has those type of outputs, but these days most DVD players and cable tuners have most of these different types of outputs.
Henry Stinson, February 2006